. >> you know, the traditional medicines of china for 3,000 years, the ayurvedic medicine of india, and the tribal shamanic medicines of all cultures around the world have always taken for granted that mind and body can't be separated. now, western medicine has cleaved the two apart for, really, 2,000 years. socrates already criticized the doctors of his day for separating the mind from the body. and the irony in fact, the tragedy is that now we have the western science that shows, incontrovertibly and in great detail, that mind and body can't be separated, and so that any attempt to do so leaves the medical practitioner short of many tools to help clients. and, of course, it leaves patients short of what they need for their own healing. the point now is that the emotional centers of the brain, which regulate our behaviors and our responses and our reactions, are physiologically connected with and we know exactly how they're connected with the immune system, the nervous system and the hormonal apparatus. in fact, it's no longer possible, scientifically, to speak of these as separate sys